International High Performance Connectivity Washington Guy Almes <almes@internet2.edu> 9 March 2001
Outline Overview Examples Summary and Q/A Rina Samani, JAnet Rene Hatem, CA*net3 James Williams, Indiana Univ / TransPAC Summary and Q/A
Abilene core November 2000 Seattle New York Cleveland Indianapolis Sacramento Denver Washington Kansas City Los Angeles Atlanta Houston
Abilene Connections by (roughly) Mar-2001
NORDUnet, SURFnet CA*net3 26 October 2000 Abilene Peering STTL CA*net3, (AARnet) (ANSP), APAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERN, CERnet, IUCC, NORDUnet, RENATER2, REUNA2, (RNP2), SURFnet, SingAREN, SINET, TAnet2 OC12 NYCM TEN-155*, JANET, NORDUnet, SURFnet CA*net3 (HEAnet, BELNET) SNVA (SINET, GEMNET) LOSA SingAREN, SINET (HARNET?) OC3-12 CALREN2 CUDI AmPATH (REUNA, RNP2, RETINA?) UT El Paso (CUDI) * ARNES, BELNET, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, HEAnet, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN, RedIRIS
Challenges We can achieve excellent performance within each of our advanced R/E networks Can we do so internationally?
Progress in New York City Situation in Fall 2000 All peering via Abilene/Teleglobe LS1010s and OC12 Performance limits: interface card / switch settings New Developments Dante: OC12 POS Janet: OC3 ATM, but bypass of cell-limiting switches Other POS Connections Planned Early planning for improved facilities for multilateral peering
West Coast Developments Peering with SingAREN in Los Angeles New Router Node in Sunnyvale New Peering with CA*net3 in Seattle GigE switch hosted by PNW GigaPoP Planning on peering also with AARnet
Other Developments Early planning of improved peering in Chicago Approaching AmPath Improving peering with CA*net3 / CUDI ITN transit, in cooperation with CA*net3 and StarTap, proving a success
Summary 4-port OC12 POS cards improve performance in New York Early experience with gigE switches Increased attention to End-to-End Performance ITN